Prime Time Thread

Y’all ain’t none braht if yew don’t know wot peeance freeance means.

Amazing. According to KO, Obama’s already getting Presidential Daily Briefings from Mike McConnell… and Bush doesn’t bother anymore!

Over the course of the past couple months, I’ve begun to feel some real love for Eugene Robinson. He’s got a sort of Isaac Hayes quality about him, and his laugh just makes me wanna go put on some Marvin Gaye.

Oh, and “Matthew Alexander” is blowing my mind right now. Torture doesn’t work?? What?? Next he’s going to tell me that Elvis is dead!Seriously though, props to someone for coming forward and saying it’s a fucked up process that doesn’t work worth a damn.

so…what DOES peeeance freeeance mean?? Or will KO answer me shortly?

Michael Moore on KO and Larry King. I know I said I hate the way he says uhhh every other word. What can I say? He has a voice for teh email. His auto proposal letter was great.

Jane,I had to look it up on YouTube. It was something W. tried to say about Iraq. It was suppose to be a “peaceful and free” Iraq but to hear W. say it, it sounds like Penis Free-us. I don’t know about the rest of you but I want my penis free.

Is it me or does KO seem to be tripping over his tongue a lot more often over the last couple of weeks?

How the fuck could Bush NOT get the PDBs daily??? What the fuck ELSE was he doing?

We all want our penises free, GI. Here’s the link, Jane:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIcBodWDHRADid I miss Michael Moore? I haven’t watched Larry King, but I’ve been running around my house doing stuff and may have missed him on KO. I hear ya, he can be annoying, but I did like his column on the HuffPo today.

Fuck, Carl and GI, sounds like BUSH is tripping up on his words lately…fell off the wagon (and Laura kept on driving over him).Yesterday it was “before I arrived (indecipherable-to?) President…during I arrived (sic) (indecipherable again) President”Bush: When ‘president’ is a verb, and ‘imbecile’ is setting the bar too high.

Kat, haven’t seen MM yet on KO. Doesn’t KO rerun after Rachel in Wilm? Or is that past yer bedtime?

Yeah, Jane. I wrote a quick post last night about Bush’s interview titled,”During I Arrived As President.”

I will sleep a lot better tonight knowing that Obama is reading the intelligence reports daily instead of W. Do you think the CIA are happy they don’t have to fill the intelligence report with color pictures and pop ups to entertain W.?

PEEEANCE FREEEEANCE what a fucking goddamn idiot. Every time I think he can’t possibly outdo himself…

I luvs this place. And youse guys. You teh funneh.

>That’s fucking genius, Jane. I may have to use that as my Facebook status.Yea, I’m a total pussy and go to bed after Rachel. Granted, I’d rather go to bed with Rachel….but I’m getting sidetracked.

>>”$34 billion sure but we own your ass!!” Michael Moore KOI LMOA when he said that. I can’t believe GM is only worth $3 billion. If this congress gives any money away with Obama driving this bus we will all regret it.

Oh damn Carlos, the cocksucker letter was brilliant.And yall, this is what Carl says about what listening to teh stoopid president does to him:”I start running into walls and tripping over the dog. Suddenly, I become entranced with shiny things and tend to play Ball in a Cup for hours. “Complete with link to Family Guy Ball-in-a-cup segment.

Kat, it appears she digs older chicks…or at least the one.

Correction: without Obama driving the busAs a military man I have to make sure that tell every liberal or progressive know I am on their side and not a government mole into the GDAB.

Where are the lurkers, now that the fences is broke??? Amuse me, monkeys!

KO reporting on the Sean Avery aka douchebag thing – you can’t say ‘sloppy seconds’ on tv? Really? I would think that’s pretty tame in the scheme of things.

What would we have to do to go with the MM plan? (I detest the guy, but he occasionally makes a good point!)Kat…move the tv to your bedroom. Problem solved.QT

Now I wasn’t the one to notice, but since someone pointed it out, in their words, did the RNC reclaim Sarah’s foundation undergarment boober-pusher-upper? She looks a little…flat lately.

Shit I will say it. SLOPPY SECONDS!! My brother wrote about this today and he was dead on. Why the fuck is a hockey player suspended for foul language as a hockey player. I forgot hockey is a gentleman’s sport.

QT on the prime time thread! Woo hoo! You’ve had some awesome posts recently, girl – just wanted to make sure you knew that. I’m with you on the MM plan too…when I read his HuffPo post, I was like, damn…that’s a good idea!And about tv, I don’t allow a tv in my bedroom. I did once, for *cough* special reasons, but it’s totally bad feng shui and now that I don’t have any *cough* special reasons anymore, it’s been banished.

Stupid commercial: Onstar, ‘Do you depend on your cell phone for emergencies?’ (shows car crash and cell flying out of car). WTF? Couldn’t your Onstar phone get damaged in a crash too? What if the car battery dies? What if there’s a crash and YOU ARE IMPALED ON YOUR ONSTAR PHONE AND HORRIBLY KILLED???

Kat likes porn. Kat likes porn.

Yea to watching the lighting of the tree with Keith and not with Britney (who makes me wants to pluck out my hair one hair at a time)!!!!

True that, Jane. It’s much more fun shared, though.

How the fuck can the US allow a man to go onto TV and talk about Christianity as the only religion in the US. I am moving to Denmark as soon as I get my disability check.

Kat, today my computer network card died and since it ain’t gettin fixed anytime soon I had to relocate to another desk and Feng Shui the shit out of it: change the printer (broke), the mouse (sucked), the keyboard (sexxxxy new one like on a laptop); kill the glare from the window, get rid of the staple remover (honestly, staple remover?? It just destroys the papers, I just toss into recycling).I also have to Feng Shui hotel rooms- move the comfy chair for tv viewing, cover the bright ass lights with a towel or something…I also am a firm believer in the concept of “Bung Shui” which is shit that fucks with your day repeatedly that someone else did on purpose, usually. Tables you bust your shin on in the dark, for example.

I know, I know. TMI.

Bush is still shoving out those executive orders. Today’s outrage on America involves making it easier for coal companies to dump rock and dirt from mountaintop mining operations into nearby streams and valleys.http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2008/12/ugly-bush-stain-coal-mining-edition.htmlIsn't that special? The damage continues unabated. Can we impeach him NOW, before he inflicts more damage? (and 6 months ago, I didn’t think there was much more BushCo could do to complete the destruction of this country. Silly me!)

The Dark Cloud of Bad News that is Ceu has arrived.;)

AARRRGH! I can’t get away from this Bush interview! Now Rachel’s showing the Chimp Man. Getting… stupid..er… Synapses… misfiring… brain cells… dying… glub…glub…

MM: “If we’re serious about fixing this problem…”Or serious about spending $25 billion, while in a deficit, on ANYthing…

Glad you liked my post, Jane. Sometimes I do my best work… at work!

And Russia’s joining the who’s-dick-is-bigger game – sending a warship through the Panama Canal. Just ’cause…http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081203/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_panama

IMHO ceu, Bush is going to inflict as much damage as he can before January 20. He has nothing to lose at this point. I think even Bush, as big as an idiot as he is, recognizes that his “legacy” is totally fucking shot.In other news, where the hell is DP?

Just shave already, goddamnit Michael. If I have to watch yer gullet jiggle, at LEAST get rid of the seven-day stubble you miraculously maintain.Seriously, does he trim it that scraggly and short?

Admit you look forward to me & my news. I drag you back from the edge.

Fucking KIDDING me? Hamdan is in the UAE right now getting tortured?? As in US vs. Hamdan??? I thought he WON that case. Do I need to look it up or can ceu answer?

Peeeance & freeeance…my wife and I LOAO the couch when we played the video!No wonder the Iraqis are showin us the door!Maybe the Guv Palin could go on the peeeance freeeance tour of Iraq to support her son there and advance her foreign experience and such also.

“I drag you back from the edge.”The edge of relaxation?? Yeah, thanks fer that!

And I’m glad to see you’re commenting at Carl’s.

Has anyone heard from The Mr. Elvis Dingeldein? I’m worried

Jane, what have you done with him? Or should I call you “Annie”?

Barry! Fresh blood.And where IS DP? Doesn’t she know her attendance is mandatory?

ceu keeps us from getting too excited about the future. And is totally right about Russia. Putin (and his mini-me Medvedev) have been craving a showdown of some sort for years with the US. I think Putin craves a worthy adversary though, and found Bush too easy and too simplistic. Putin is a product of the Cold War who longs for the days of stealth and covert intelligence. He may have found the intelligence he craves in Obama.

I suppose I should go check on Elvis in the basement. Do you think he might be hungry? I haven’t checked on him in a few days.

Welcome to the asylum, Barry!

And that was a most excellent post, Carl. I haven’t thought about playing Ball In A Cup in, well, *cough* a while.

Fucking Russia seems to me is only sort of mildly mirroring in South America what the US has been doing in their neck-o-the-woods for at least five years now. I almost don’t blame them one FUCKing bit, and my blood pressure skyrockets when the Neocons react and wave themselves with their fans and say “I declare!”

AAHAHHHAH!! Jane! “Purvint.” Fucking awesome. Sorry for the inside joke, guys.

Kat likes porn and is hard up! Kat likes porn and is hard up!(me too. sniff.)

Hamdan is in the UAE right now getting tortured?? As in US vs. Hamdan???I don’t know….I thought he lost and was sentenced to something like time served plus 6 months and that was supposed to over in like Feb. And there was talk that the US wasn’t going to let him go.I caught only the tail end of a segment that was torture so I know nothing of what you’re asking.

Oh ceu. You’re so clever, subtly letting Carl know there was a new comment or two. Went over my head at first.

@ ceu – I think it’s a different Hamdan.

Ceu, re Hamdan, KO said he just excaped some more torture in UAE and got to a phone yesterday.

Oh. Thanks, Carl.I just realized I could have an open thread all by myself.(So why don’t I, you’re all saying.)

Jane – Wiki says Despite the threat to detain him indefinitely, the U.S. in November 2008 transferred him to Yemen to serve out the remaining month of his sentence. He will be held in a prison in Sana, Yemen until December 27, 2008. After that date, he is to be released to his wife and children under supervision.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salim_Hamdan

OK, the sloppy seconds? I didn’t realize he was talking about the ‘original’ context and not something hockey-playing-related. Yeah, not great, but I’m sure the punishment didn’t fit the crime.

Right, KO is talking about a guy named Naaji Hamdan. Bin Laden’s driver who was just tried is Salim Hamdan. Apparently, “Hamdan” is equivalent to “Smith” in the Middle East.

Not so new, I’m bjritz who’s posted before…not a lot, but f*ck not typepad and the new way.I’ve always been able to get in…But I love you all, Kat, Jane, Queen, db et all.Mucho good times here and lots of great posts.

Fuck fuck fuckity fuckfuckfuck FUUUUUCK Cunningham (the Christianist).(Hey! A new release for Typepad frustration!)

Jane – you’re just now getting to ‘sloppy seconds’? Just how far behind are you on the Tivo? And it totally was a bogus call by the NHL. I’ve said worse than that shit standing in a church.And speaking of church…whenever I hear of “God” being part of any sort of litigious process, I cringe.

Sorry I’m late, guys. I didn’t realize it was mandatory that I be here. I had a dog on my lap and she was too warm and comfy to move. Now she’s staring at me in a disgruntled way.You guys are insane! (Love the Dark Cloud that is Ceu–I Laffed Oout Loud over that little truth).Guys, if you knew how much like Michael Moore I am you’d all move away from me on the Group W Bench. I’m not his size but I dress like him, my hair flies like his and if I could grow whiskers, I would (and in fact in wintertime–oh, never mind, speaking of TMI). I love that guy and think he got his “look” from me. I do wish he’d clean up the you-knows.

Rachel is an Atheist!! There is a God! I mean no God. Shit I don’t know but it was refreshing to hear her talk about religion in an unfavorable way on prime time television.

Yeah Kat, I was emailing an old friend, then YOU guys were cracking me up, etc. (I am SO addicted to the DVR function I can’t give it up yet, even though it = $$$$$. I even reach for the radio thinking I can back up, as in “WHAT did he say?”)

I fuckin’ LOVE Billo in the Santa hat.

*crap, they did move away from me on the GW bench*

Ah…that makes more sense now, Barry. We didn’t recognize you without the ‘bj.’

Dark cloud?? I’m hurt. I actually have a sense of humor & everything!!DontPanic – best line was “Obie, did you think I was gonna hang myself for littering?”

It’s about damn fucking time, DP! And I love me some MM like that crazy ass drunk uncle at Thanksgiving that you just want to shut up sometimes, but love anyways. Although I spent T-day with friends, so I didn’t have to deal with Uncle Michael.And thanks for the research, Carl.

Billo: Islam is the same as “nutty secular cause”???? FUUUUUUUUUCK YOU BILLO

Hey, I didn’t say it! Jane did!My kid and her hubby drove around the block a few times before stopping at Mom’s on T’giving, making them late. Seems it was on the radio and she had to hear it out. Ya gotta sing loud if yer gonna end war ‘n stuff.

BillO is completely unhinged. I’m sure he’s really hot under the collar about the Murdoch book that came out saying how everyone at Fox loathes him.

About time DP. I just figgered out that if I keep the laptop in (ahem) the lap it keeps the cats off me (great for bathroom breaks) and keeps me warm. I guess I had stopped in summer when it burned my legs to a crisp and just forgot. Have you spoken to Santa yet? This thing was maybe $550 at the time and there were cheaper models. Just sayin….

You were putting together a DP fundraiser for de laptop? With a little spurting graphic like Bob’s during the election, yes?

So check this out: I received an e-mail from my IATSE LocalOne Stagehands office. Local 22 in D.C. is shorthanded and they’re looking for stagehands to work the Inauguration! I’m going to look into it.

OK Jane! Fun is fun but it’s time to let Elvis out of the cellar!

Yeah, Jane. Elvis. We want him back.

DP – I can get behind any fundraiser that involves spurting graphics. I shall say no more.Carl!! That’s awesome!! And now I’m totally jealous!! It would be so amazing if you could be there.

why are you watching Fox?DP – I bought the CD a few years back. Some jokes never get old. “I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope under that garbage”

Heh, Carlos, forgot about that Murdoch book thingy.Ceu- I know you’re teh funneh, I’ve read you elsewhere, but you always seem to pop in on open thread amidst “heh Palin heh heh he said ‘sloppy seconds’ heh” and drop a Seriousness bomb on the room. We love. We kid, but we love.

Funny, Kat, you came to mind when I typed that. Maybe it was the tv-in-the-bedroom thing above.And Carl, you’ll take us all on the bus?

Re: Inauguration. I was seriously planning on going until I realized that FOUR MILLION people were planning on going and that hotel rooms were being jacked up. Then I thought it would be a day trip. Plus my wife is nervous about me being in a throng of millions of people, so she wants to come with.

I’m not going to get my hopes up because there is no information about accomodations. So we’ll see.

Ooooh Carl! My boss, the owner of the company, was our local’s president until recently. I bet I could get off to work THAT without pissing her off, if I even have to tell her! (Shush, yall.) Send me a linky? (I’d put up with a raging mob if I were getting paid to be there….how late are the bars open in DC?)

Arrgh, Ceu, I’m not thinking of all the good lines because I haven’t heard it in several years. Must listen. In the late 70s I worked in a place full of people who quoted from it liberally. We even labeled the shelf the books that couldn’t be returned to the publishers (and got a code “W” marked on them) went on as “Group W”.WTF? Dancing Jesus?

Ceu, noone’s watching Fox! Silly you! Billo was the last segment on KO.

FUNNY dancing Jesus, DP…big difference….http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c0cf508ff8/prop-8-the-musical-starring-jack-black-john-c-reilly-and-many-more-from-fod-team-jack-black-craig-robinson-john-c-reilly-and-rashida-jones

DP-Dancing Jesus? Group W? I’m lost.Ceu, my faaaaaavorite is when you recap the thread for any latecomers, btw.

Good news, Carl! DC has approved emergency legislation to allow the bars to stay open 24 hours a day during the inauguration festivities!

No FUCKING way, ceu! Carlos, I’m THERE, that will MORE than make up for lodging…hey, maybe I know someone…

I only did that once, Jane. And it was warranted.Dancing Jesus – did you ever see Drop Dead Gorgeous? Best dancing Jesus scene ever!

OMG that’s hysterically funny. Thank you, Kat. Must send to everyone I know (especially that funny little man who sends all that religious crap in email with threats if I don’t send to everyone I know).

And Jane: google “Alice’s Restaurant” lyrics–the loooong version.

WOW! DC bars open 24 hours during Inauguration week! That answers your question, Jane.

Here’s the info:

The historic inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama will take place in our nation’s capital on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. Local 22, IATSE needs stagehands to work on various events associated with the inauguration. If you are interested and available please contact:

Brother John Brasseux, Local 22 Business Agent,1810 Hamlin Street NE, Washington, D.C. 20018-2459 Phone: 202-269-0212 Fax: 202-635-0192

Holy CARP, Kat that was Goddamn AWESOME!And I DO mean carp.

“shovels and rakes and implements of destruction”–when WMD first started being talked about I thought of the good Mr. Guthrie and his wonderful anti-war litterbug song.

Oh….to know how to work a forklift…*sigh*

Shit, Barry. That’s funny. I was even tapping my toe when that bus came along and squashed him like a bug.

Carlos: Uhhhh…I can do followspot. I really consider myself teh suckage at anything else on that list that I could conceivably (legitimately) qualify for. And I’m not a cardholder. I gave up that idea YEARS ago (NC=right to work, I stopped freelancing, and I’ve never wanted to tour.) Thanks, though, I’ll look into it, and pass along to my old boss. His fiancee has been trying to DRAG him to go and he’s been pussing out.And Ceu- unless Typewad ate someone’s comment I never saw the reference to Alice’s Restaurant! Of course I know the song, I’m not that young. (Tee hee.)

>> Oh….to know how to work a forklift…*sigh*I can drive any forking thing. Can I come?

Barry has now reverted to bjritz. I shall alert teh media.(Still waiting on the Youtoob to load…)

That was DP, Jane. I only supplied a few lines

I think I’m gonna pussy out and hit that sack, people. It was awesome to hang out with you all. Even those motherfuckers who may be so lucky to go to the Inauguration.

We only just made reference to the song. You had to be paying attention AND know the song, silly.

Top Chef – I love the show, but seriously, does anyone really eat that stuff? I don’t even know what half the terms or ingredients they use are.

Me too, Kat. *not together, folks*It has been a hoppin’ night here. I wish I’d shown up earlier. That’ll teach me.

Yall outsiders, a followspot is easier to run than a goddamn forklift. It’s like running a camera…point, follow, fade up, fade out…and at an inauguration I imagine there will be no sudden cues, color rolls, even color changes, maybe a ballyhoo or two…really, if they’ll take non-union, I’ll train you all online.

2nd time tonight lmaotc (the couch) Watching DJ – after the bus my wife said “Is there a resurrection?”As in many shorts the production clearly ran out of money.

Nite kids!(Bob, wanna set up a ‘buy DP a laptop’ widget with a spurty thing and everything? Puhleeeeeeeeze?)Speaking of, where TF is Polleeeeeeze lately?

That sounds awesome, Jane. Just let me know when the class starts.Ok, I’m off to hop into to the sack with DP now. She’s so cute…trying to fool everyone…

It’s the whiskers, isn’t it?

Whiskers? I thought it would be the non-sloppy firsts.

Goodnight all. If I find out more info, I’ll let you know.

At the very least, pictures, Carlos. Pictures.Nite Carl, DP, Kat. Yall three behave…

Kat only wants me for my Michael Moore slovenly taste in dress and hair (but not the hat–I don’t do ballcaps). I don’t own a shirt that doesn’t say something, though.G’night.

Goddamn, Barry, BJ, whoever you are, I have to watch Jesus again.

I’m glad you are enjoying Jesus Super Dancer or are you just having a bad download experience, Jane?

Yep. Screeches to a halt, as per usual. You people get me all wired up and then you go to bed.Blogteases.

Oh nooooes, BJ the Barry, I just had to see it agains, after sending it to three people, along with Prop 8 the Musical.It is a great song, though I lurv Cake’s version better, but in the context Gaynor’s is prolly more appropriate.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10C68Gzd5GM

East coast blogtestas all!I just watched the WPITW by Kieth. The Hannity one on people who “hear” bumper stickers was funny.

Speaking of favorite cover songs, I’m gonna be presumptuous as all hell and make a request of Bob via email…not of Cake, above, but a cover of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” so you’ll find out if he concurs on the sheer volume of awesomeness. Be on teh lookout.Not so sure if Bob will like, we seem to diverge musically. I do lerve the video he likes, in teh Morning A, especially any animation, though.

Beejerz, I’m an east-coaster too. But I’m not a pussy who goes to bed at 9:30 or 10.(Ouch!)

So, Jane, what is your take on all the little glass animals in the Cake one?

John Hodgman on Daily Show. Lame duck talk.I love that guy

Just watched the prop 8 musical – wow, that’s great too!I love the era I live in, mo fun, mo betta.

Beej, if you’re still out there, I actually had never seen the Cake video before I looked it up, and I confess I only watched enough to make sure it was the real version. I’ll go watch it and report back to you! (Was busy writing my email request to Mr. The Bob Cesca for a Morning Awesome.)The Prop 8 video blew me away. Not just because of the end result, but the fact that ALL those people got together and DID that, and someone WROTE it, and that they used fucking Home Depot clip lights for their “footlights”….higher production value than, really, a lot of shit, and they didn’t exactly sell tickets or make money off it, from what I can infer.

Aw… I missed everyone! Well, good reading you all. I’m slow to post cuz I’m behind in everything… but I’m making small progress.And Kat, I thought you wanted to go to bed with Rachel, but seems you prefer DP, so I’ll leave you to feng shui as you will…BTW, jane, honest… I haven’t forgotten… even thoug by now you may have! Also, jane, I know we’re all joking, but, do you have any idea how Elvis is? If so, just a “he’s fine, busy” would be great…Also, haven’t seen Jumpy Pants for a while…QT

Cactus is missing too.

And LiveFree and Groobie, along with the rumored-to-be-back Ashby, am I not catching their posts or are they also MIA?